Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,086, Jonathan Gardner, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Gardner, Jonathan Sarah
V 23,086
CONTENTS

W 233 Maine
Jonathan Garner of Buckfield in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Morrison of the R. F., commanded by Col. Francis in the Maine time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of - 80 - Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of March 1833 and sent C. G. Col. Paris Maine
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $100.00 Pemi-anl. allowance ending Sept " 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Chas. Addison Clerk, Book 0 Vol. 15 th Page 18

Maine 4690
Sarah Gardner Mrs widow of Jonathan Gardner who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jan. 1844 and sent to Saml F. Brown Bucksfield, Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 250.

Don. Gordon 4974. Application
Jonathan Gardner Private 2 years
Joseph G. Cole Esq. Paris. Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 17 th day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Matthew Gardner a resident of Bucksport in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. viz. That he enlisted
into said service at Hingham in County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the month of July, in the year 1776. into a company commanded by Capt. Pinniman, of Col. Francis Regiment, for a term of four months and went to Dorchester near Boston where he served through said term of four months and immediately enlisted again into the same company for another term of four months, which term he served through at said Dorchester, after which, he did duty in the same company one month more, in Boston & was dismissed.
That after the above & in the year 1777, he again enlisted into the service, at said Hingham, into a company, commanded by Capt. Seth Steward , of Col. Robinsons Regiment and marched to Rhode Island and did duty in various places, being engaged in Stearns Expedition , and after serving six months, the term of our enlistment, said Gardner was discharged at Nades Ferry .
That after this he enlisted again at said Hingham early in the Spring of the year 1778 into a company commanded by Captain Morse , of Col. Wades Regiment for one year, and marched on the way to New York, into Connecticut & was ordered back & marched to Sally Point and was afterwards engaged in Sullivan's Expedition on Rhode Island and was afterwards arranged under new officers and went to East Greenwich - was put into the Boat Service & finally returned to the regi-

must again & was discharged at said fort Greenwich after having served said term of twelve months through.
That he again enlisted into said service in the year 1779 into a company commanded by Captain Theophilus Wilder of Col. John Jacob's Regiment for six months and went to Rhode Island, where he served out said term of six months, in guarding the island & not in any other particular duty, that he now remembers, & was discharged, he thinks, in January 1780. In all these he served as a private.
Said Gardner said he was born on the 29th day of January, 1760, at Hingham aforesaid, where may be found, as he believes, the record of his age - that he lived at said Hingham where he was called into service & where he lived afterward, till he came to Brookfield, where he has lived ever since - That he was always a volunteer in the service - He recollects the names of Col. Sprout - Col. Vose & Col. Wigginworth, as being with the troops when he served - also the Regiment of black troops under Col. Green - that he never received any written discharge from the service He states the names of John Loring, Samuel J. Brann & Benjamin Spalding Esquire and the Rev. Ephraim Hurlow of said Brookfield of his neighborhood to whom he is known and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
Jonathan Gardner

Samuel Brown Mr Nathaniel Chase a clergyman, residing in the town of Buckfield, County of Oxford & State of Maine & John Loring Esquire; residing in said Buckfield Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Gardner who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration - that we believe him him to be the years of age - that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Brown
John Loring
Sworn to, & subscribed in open Court
Stephen Emery, Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. Said applicant having adduced the depositions of Thomas Berry, John Keen, Meshach Keen, & Luther Gardner, as also the certificate of Nathaniel Chase, a clergyman & of John Loring, all upon oath duly administered, persons sustaining their reputations for truth & veracity, in corroboration of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Gardner for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of August A. D. 1832
Gene.
Joseph G. Cole Register
He hereby certifies that every word of the foregoing is true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief.

State of Maine
Oxford County ss. On this thirty first day of August A.D. 1838. Personally appeared before the Court of Probate now specially sitting at Paris within & for said County, Sarah Gardner a resident of Buckfield in said County of Oxford & State of Maine aged Seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting Relief pay & Pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Jonathan Gardner late of Buckfield aforesaid deceased - who was a soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war and served therein several years, and received a pension from the United States for his said service: The period of his enlistment & the amount of service rendered by said Jonathan, she is unable to state, but respectfully refers to the papers & evidence on file in the War Department in his application for a pension, as evidence of his service.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Jonathan Gardner on the twenty sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eight nine; that her husband, the aforesaid Jonathan Gardner, died on the thirty first day of March, eighteen hundred & thirty six; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Witness S. Emery
Sarah Gardner
Sworn to & subscribed, by the said Sarah Gardner the day & year first above written.
Before Stephen Emery, Judge

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hingham, Plymouth County August 4th 1838.
"Jonathan Gardner & Sarah Gardner, both of Hingham were joined in marriage, by the Rev d Daniel Shute Pastor of the second Church in Hingham, November the twenty sixth in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine."
I hereby Certify that the above extract is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows, Nov r 26th 1789
Attest,
James V. Lewis, Clerk of the Town of Hingham
I, James V. Lewis above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Hingham in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true Extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
James V. Lewis, Clerk of the Town of Hingham.
Sworn before me,
Solomon Lincoln
Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for the said County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Solomon Lincoln is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the within is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this sixth day of August A.D. 1836
Jacob H Lord

Isaac Gorder (1,643) (1261)
Me
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Marr'd in 89
Died in 96
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13mo 2ds pre
$43.55
Sam H Brown
Bucksfield
Me

I, Hiram Coburn of Buckfield in the County of Oxford & state of Maine, aged thirty one years, on oath testify & say, that Jonathan Gardner, late of Buckfield deceased was a United States Pensioner; that said Jonathan died at said Buckfield on the thirty first day of March A.D. 1836, ac- cording to my best recollection; giving then & there present.
I further testify that Sarah Gardner named in the foregoing declaration was the wife of said Jonathan, & is now his widow, & that she has remained such, unmor- ried, since the death of her said husband, the said Jona- than Gardner, as aforesaid.
Hiram Coburn
Sworn to & subscribed by the said Hiram Coburn, a credible witness, the day & year first above written, in the declaration hereto preceding.
Before Stephen Emery, Judge of the Court of Probate, Oxford County & state of Maine.

State of Maine
Oxford ss. I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Sarah Gardner for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this thirty first day of August A. D. 1838
Lewi Howells. Register.

I Luther Gardner of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth wealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that I was a soldier in the American Army during the war of the Revolution - that after I had served out a period of service, I returned to my home in Hingham, now in the County of Plymouth and said Commonwealth in the month of January, in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven, when I found that my brother Jonathan Gardner was resident in said Buckfield, had enlisted into the same service and was absent on duty - I soon went to Boston and there found him engaged in said service - I returned home immediately and soon engaged again in the service of the army on Castle William in May or June in said year for a short time and went home in August I think following, when I found that said Jonathan had again enlisted into the Army & had gone to Rhode Island - I immediately enlisted again into the service and went to Rhode Island, where I again met with said Jonathan in the army daily duty as a soldier. This was during Spencer Expedition so called - My term being out in March seventeen hundred & seventy eight, I was discharged and went home and found that my said Brother Jonathan had been home and had enlisted and gone again into said service to Rhode Island - Soon after this I went on to Castle William again to help build fort &c and returned home in the fall and sometime in the winter.

following, I think after the first of January, said Jonathan returned from the Army & After this I was absent from my Father in Hingham and in the State of New York for about three years and have no further actual knowledge of said Jonathan's living in said service afterwards but I have understood from said Jonathan at different times, that he did engage in said service after that last named term and I have no doubt but that he did serve the several terms that I have above noticed.
Luther Gardner
Oxford Gf. On the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen the aforesaid Deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him signed, taken at the request of Jonathan Gardner and by order of the Hon. Abner W. Farris Judge of the United States for Maine District and to be used before the District Court of the United States now in special Session at Paris within and for said District, in an application then pending by the said Jonathan Gardner for a certificate of his having served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment against the common enemy, for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States agreeable to the provisions of an Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818. entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service in the Revolutionary War — Taking substance & same to be paid to me — John Brown for the

Maine — 1643
Sarah Gardner, widow of Jonathan Gardner, deceased.
was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 who died on the 31 st March, 1836 finds co. in the State of Maine as a private in the company commanded by Captain Pomeroy of the Regt commanded by Col. Francis in the Maine is for 13 months 2 days. per.
Enrolled on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 43 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 st day of March, 1836 1 st April 3
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Jan- uary 1839 and sent to Genl. H. Brown, Buckfield, Maine
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1838 — $106.25 Semi-annual allowance ending Oct. '39 — 21.77
$128.02
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by S. S. Elliot Clerk Book 4, Vol. 1, Page 10.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23086
Sarah Gardner wid of Jonathan Gardner Dis. Rev War
Act March 3 d 48
Index: Vol A , Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ms 1592 1789
Paris Apr 17 Oct 22 1789 No 2216 Sarah Gadsby Oct 6. Room? No. Lat 38. No 1643. Edward Lloyd Committee of Safety Washington City

Paris Oct. 15. 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs. Sarah Gardner's application for a pension, were forwarded to the Pension Office, by myself, at her request. There are many cases of a like nature, where the applicants have come forward, made application, & as a matter of mere convenience to them, have requested me to forward their papers. In future cases thus situated, I will see that there be a compliance with the rule, to which attention was directed in your letter to Mrs. Gardner, which letter she requests me to answer.
For any further communication you may please to make her, relative to her case, she will be grateful.
I am your obedient servant Stephen Emery

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Thomas Clark & Samuel F. Brown
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of John Keen Thomas Berry, Nathaniel Keen & John Keen , are
Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year A. D. 1832.
R. K. Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

Paris Mr
Sept 3
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me July 1838.
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J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Jonathan Gardner
vol 3 - p 42 - 8 Dec - 10 21 Aug 77 - X not out - also p 45 - +
76. Penniman I settlement 4 th - say 8 mo
77. Seth Stowe - Robing on
78. Nathl Thorne - Road 21. 85 - pay w/cap 6 mo - 2181 78
6 mo 12
79 - Thos Wilder Jacob vol 3 p 206 on 3 mo 1181 (80) / 6
vol 23 p 12 - 1 Dec 76 -
vol 23 25 77 - on 6 mo

Theophilus Wilder.
Vol 26. 424 on
Jonathan Gardner
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43.55 1.62 40.93
3.62
3.50
40.93 43.55 21.77 $106:25

Jonathan Gardner M c act 7 June when last H. d.? G. M. C.
19 Jan y 39.
Dec r 31 st  March  Dec r 1836 paid to that period 14

Gardner
Rockfield Me Jan 9
free
Send me
Hon J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington D. C.

Bucksfield Me Jan'y 20. 1839
Dear Mr. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Mrs Sarah Gardner widow of Jonathan Gardner, late Pensioner under the act of 1832, request me to acknowledge recd. of your favour of Nov 14, in answer to her application for a pension, under the act of 1830, advising her of the insufficiency of the evidence on file, to support her claim to a pension to the am t . for which her husband had drawn, that evidence not conforming with the rolls now in your possession —
She wishes me to say, that not having it in her power to account for the discrepancy as to procuring further testimony, she wishes you to grant her a Certificate for such a sum as her evidence will justify & forward the same to my care as soon as convenient —
Yours respectfully
Saml H Brown

Sarah Gardner
$43.50 per an
Sam. F. Brown Bucksfield Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford
County.
On this Nineteenth day of October 184 4 Personally appeared before the the subscribers a justice of the Peace for said County of Oxford of the
Sarah Gardner a resident of Brookfield in the County of Oxford aged seventy five years—who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War—That she is the Widow of Jonathan
Gardner who was a Private soldier in the American Army, in the Revolutionary War and served as such for several campaigns, the particulars of which & the officer under whom he served, she cannot state. For this service, said Jonathan received a pension under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, to the widow in which case, she refers in support of this claim. She also declares that she received a pension, as widow of said Jonathan, under the act of July 7, 1830 of forty three dollars & 50 cts, her certificate for which being Number 1643.
she further declares that she is still a widow
Sarah G Gardner
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Before me and I further certify that the said Sarah Gardner is personally known to me to be what she has as above declared herself to be, and that she has drawn a pension under the act of July 7, 1830.
Samuel F. Brown Justice of the Peace
NOTE—After “who was a” insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy or militia, as the case may be, and the regiment, corps or vessel in which he served, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838.

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. The subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Oxford hereby certify that Samuel T. Brown whose genuine signature is affixed to the within application of Sarah Gardner for a Pension, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Oxford, duly commissioned and qualified as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court and subscribed my name this thirteenth day of January 1844
Joseph G. L. Litchfield Clerk as aforesaid

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Daniel F. Brown & Thomas Clark Esqrs.
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Thomas Berry, Meshack Keen, Luther Gardner, Ephraim Harlow & John Keen are severally Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 24th day of December in the year A. D. 1832
R Goodenow { Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I John Keen, of Turner, in the county of Oxford and state of Maine, on oath declare, that to my certain knowledge, Jonathan Gardner of Buckfield in said county, enlisted into the army of the United States, as a private soldier, on the continental establishment in the month of April 1776, and served in the company commanded by Capt. Penneman, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Francis, and that he served for the term of eight months - I further declare, that I well knew that said Jonathan Gardner was in the service as aforesaid in the Rhode Island expedition under Gen Sullivan, in the regiment commanded by Col. Wade in the year 1778 - but how long he served I do not recollect - but have no doubt but he served for the further time of six months - John Keen
State of Maine.
Oxford ss. July 27. 1832. The above named John Keen personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed - Before me -
Thomas Clarke. Jus. of the Peace -
State of Maine.
Oxford ss. Dec. 22d. 1832. I further certify, that the above named John Keen, is a credible witness, and that his statement is entitled to full credit -
Thomas Clarke, Jus. of the Peace

I Ephraim Harlow, a clergyman, residing in the town of Buckfield, County of Oxford & State of Maine, hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Gardner, of said Buckfield, who has made application for a pension, from the United States, as I am informed, he being a neighbor to me; that I believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Ephraim Harlow
State of Maine County of Oxford p. December 10 th 1832. Then the the above named Ephraim Harlow, who is to my knowledge, a clergyman, as stated, and a man of credibility for truth, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affi- davit, by him subscribed, before me,
Nathaniel Harlow Justice of the Peace

I Meshach Keen of Sumner in the County of Oxford Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that I was a soldier in the American Army in the war of the Revolution - that I enlisted into said service at Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and said Commonwealth sometime in the spring of the year seven hundred & seventy seven, into a Company com- manded by Captain Seth Storer belonging to Col. Robinsons Regiment. For the term of six months and immediately after joined the said Company at some place in the State of Rhode Island, but what and do not recollect - that when said Company was first formed I found that Jonathan Gardner now resident in Buckfield in said County of Oxford, was also a member of the same company - that he had enlisted for the same term and I also know that he served the same term of six months through in the same company or at least, this according to my best recollec- tion - I am confident that he served the greater part of the term and know nothing to the contrary of his serving the whole of said term and believe that he did, as I did myself his
Meshach Keen Mark
Oxford J. on the twenty fifth day of April in

in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen, the aforesaid Deposition was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Jonathan Gardner of Bucksport in said County and by the special appointment of the Hon. Albin H. Parris, Judge of the United States for Maine District and to be used before the District Court of the United States now in special Session at Paris within and for said District in an application then pending by the said Gardner made for a Certificate of his having served in the war of the Revolution in the Continental establishment against the common enemy for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States agreeable to the provision of an Act of Congress, passed March 18. 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War taken and sworn to before me the Deposition being a credible witness
Sam l H. Brown Judge of the Paris

I Thomas Berry of Buckfield in the County Oxford & State of Maine aged seventy years testify & say that I was a soldier in the american army, during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for various periods, one of which was for six months in the company commanded by Captain Theophilus Wilder of Col. John Jacob's Regiment of Massachusetts troops - that I enlisted into said service in said company & served said six months through at Rhode Island. And I further say that I am well knowing to the fact that Jonathan Gardner was residing in said Buckfield, was with me in said company during said period of six months, he having enlisted in same town with myself, it being Wingham, Massachusetts. I have have known said Gardner ever since & well know him to be the same man that served with me as above described -
I was also in said service at Dorchester & other places south of Boston for six months, during which time I frequently saw said Gardner then as a soldier doing a soldier's duty, but I can tell how long.
Thomas Berry
State of Maine - County of Oxford.
July 23 d . 1832. Then the above named Thomas Berry, to me known as a man of truth personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me Samuel D. Drown Justice of the Peace